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The Shenzhen International Course Center (SZICC) has submitted a judicial review to the High Court after the Hong Kong exams body rejected the application of 62 mainland students to take the 2025 Hong Kong Diploma of Secondary Education (HKDSE) exam as private candidates.
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SZICC argued that the Hong Kong Examinations and Assessment Authority (HKEAA) misapplied and misinterpreted the exam regulations when it refused the applications.
In September, SZICC submitted the applications for the 62 students, including 29 Hong Kong permanent residents and eight two-way permit holders, but HKEAA requested official documentation to confirm the center's educational credentials.
Although the center submitted the documents to prove its education license equivalent to high school education in Britain on October 4, the HKEAA rejected the applications on October 28 on the grounds that the center did not provide official documentation from mainland China education authorities.
SZICC said its previous applications for 27 students to take the 2024 HKDSE were approved under similar conditions, and claimed the HKEAA acted irrationally when handling the applications from the 62 students this year and has no good justification for treating the two batches of students differently.
The center thus asked the court to overturn the rejection and reconsider their applications.
The court has granted leave to the application for judicial review and the hearing is scheduled for December.
SZICC was established in 2017 and has been offering HKDSE courses since 2022.
